So many urban legends are just legends that I was
starting to lose faith in the weirdness of the
world.. Until I read about these...

Excerpt:

The Funhouse Mummy

The Myth:

A prop at a carnival was discovered not to be
made of the usual combination of papier mache and
carni spit, but human skin and bone. All the little
kiddies at the haunted house had been poking and
giggling at a real, mummified dead body.

The Truth:

Apparently the smell wasn’t just coming from the
convict manning the corndog stand. Back in 1976, a
camera crew filming an episode of The Six Million
Dollar Man began to set up in the haunted house at
the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, Calif.As
they were moving aside a "hanging man" prop, they
accidentally knocked off its arm and discovered
human bones inside. Bionic, this poor sap
wasn’t.